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Learn the key skills and strategies that successful parents use to raise accomplished children. Discover the importance of chores, social and emotional skills, high expectations, healthy relationships, early math development, building strong connections, managing stress, valuing effort, and fostering grit.
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Being Gifted Parents Empowering Skills to Develop your Kids
www.TheGiftedParents.com Every good parent wants their kids to do well in school, and go on to do awesome things as adults in life. manual And while there isn't a ready manual for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to several factors that predict success. parents Unsurprisingly, parents play an extremely crucial role.
www.TheGiftedParents.com Critical inquiry paper was focused on the research question • Is there a consistent parenting style that exist among parents of high ability children in Singapore in terms of • parental perception of academic achievement, • level of involvement in supporting academic instruction, • ways of managing their children’s behaviour in terms of their academic school work, • their role in school work, and • ways of communication between themselves and the school teachers?
www.TheGiftedParents.com Here's what parents of successful kids have in common: daddy mommy
www.TheGiftedParents.com Dad & Mom (They) make their kids do chores. Learning that work has to be done & that each one of us must contribute for the betterment of the whole in the family Become employees who collaborate well with their colleagues, are more empathetic because they know firsthand what struggling looks like, & are able to take on tasks independently By making them do chores — taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry — they realize I have to do the work of life in order to be part of life
www.TheGiftedParents.com They teach their kids social & emotional skills. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University tracked more than 700 children for 20 years from across the US between kindergarten and age 25 & found a significant relationship between their social skills as kindergartners & their success as adults 20 years later. be helpful to others understand their feelings resolve problems on their own cooperate with their peers without prompting
www.TheGiftedParents.com They have high expectations. Expectations parents hold for their kids have a huge effect on attainment Parents who saw college or university in their child's future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets This is known as the Pygmalion effect which states "that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy." In the case of kids, they live up to their parents' expectations.
www.TheGiftedParents.com Parents have healthy relationships with each other. Children in high-conflict families, whether intact or divorced, tend to fare worse than children of parents that get along.
www.TheGiftedParents.com They teach their kids math early on. A study found that developing math skills early can turn into a huge advantage. Mastery of early math skills - of beginning school with a knowledge of numbers, number order, and other rudimentary math concepts - predicts not only future math achievement, it also predicts future reading achievement. Math tests critical, logical, analytical & reasoning skills!
www.TheGiftedParents.com They develop a relationship with their kids. A study found that children who received "sensitive caregiving" in their first three years not only did better in academic tests in childhood, but had healthier relationships and greater academic attainment in their 30s. investments in early parent-child relationships = long-term returns that accumulate across individuals' lives A young teen at between13 to 16 years old tend to behave like when he/she was at between 2 to 4 years old! Lots of whining!
www.TheGiftedParents.com They're less stressed. Emotional contagion — or the psychological phenomenon where people "catch" feelings from one another like they would a cold — helps explain why. Research shows that if your friend is happy, that brightness will infect you; if she's sad, that gloominess will transfer as well. So if a parent is exhausted or frustrated, that emotional state could transfer to the kids.
www.TheGiftedParents.com They value effort over avoiding failure.
www.TheGiftedParents.com They value effort over avoiding failure. • assumes that our character, intelligence, & creative ability are static & that we can't change in any meaningful way • success is of inherent intelligence • avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled Fixed Mindsets • thrives on challenge • sees failure not as evidence of un-intelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities. Growth games puzzles If kids are told that they aced a test because of their innate intelligence, that creates a "fixed" mindset. If they succeeded because of effort, that teaches a "growth" mindset.
www.TheGiftedParents.com They teach ‘grit’. a powerful, success-driving personality trait called grit brave in the face of challenges & failures brave in taking responsibility for all actions brave in keeping my promises brave in taking a decisive action Grit is what sustains interest &effort toward very long-term goals.
www.TheGiftedParents.com Why do we care about good parenting? Why do we send our kids to all kinds of good enrichment? … Every good parent wants their kids to do well in school, and go on to do awesome things as adults in life.
www.TheGiftedParents.com Brave ~ different magnitudes Gratitude Big-hearted 你敬我一尺，我敬你一丈！
Water, Consciousness & Intent: Dr. Masaru Emoto http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/water-crystal.html https://youtu.be/tAvzsjcBtx8 • Show your children your love • Tell them you love them • ‘Transfer’ strong positive & loving thoughts to them
www.TheGiftedParents.com • How to create passion in our children • How to provide inspiration to our children • How to communicate positively to our children • Best practices for managing work and children's needs • How to deal with the terrible twos and threes • Best ways to engage the pre-teen/teens • Old style parenting and the new style parenting - which works best? • Three things we should do with our children starting now • How to build perseverance in our children Let’s Learn Together better
